Released by The New York Times, a tape has recorded Weinstein reportedly pressuring a young actress into his hotel room, only a week after the publication's investigation into the disgraced producer exposed decades of sexual harassment.

You can hear on the recording, released on the publication's Twitter account, Weinstein speaking with Filipina-Italian model, Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, then aged 22.

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Gutierrez had gone to the police the day before, reporting Weinstein for sexual assault - saying he had groped her breasts and put his hands up her skirt during an earlier meeting in his office.

After Weinstein, seemingly besotted with the young woman, invited Gutierrez to meet him at the Tribeca Grand Hotel that night, police devised a plan to wire the young actress in the hopes of recording a confession from Weinstein.

Harvey Weinstein is at the centre of a massive sexual assault investigation (Image: AFP)

What they got was so much more.

In the nearly-two-minute recording - taped in 2015 - Weinstein can be heard pressuring Gutierrez to go to his room as he wants to take a shower.

She repeatedly said "no".

He said they'll just be "five minutes" before adding: "Don’t ruin your friendship with me for five minutes."

Asking him directly why he groped her the day before, Weinstein said it was behaviour he was "used to", saying: "Oh, please, I'm sorry, just come on in...I won’t do it again."